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02:02 AM Jun 22 2009 \| Responder
arabhamid Algeria	This post, to shire the information and what is going on in the occupied land Palestine. So, we try to follow daily the news and change opinions about them. Also, change all the information about Palestine. So, every body is welcome to comment and shire.

02:02 AM Jun 22 2009 | Responder

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This post, to shire the information and what is going on in the occupied land Palestine.
So, we try to follow daily the news and change opinions about them.

Also, change all the information about Palestine.
So, every body is welcome to comment and shire.

02:10 AM Jun 22 2009 \| Responder
arabhamid Algeria	Carter: Grief and despair for Gaza After touring Gaza, Carter said 'my primary feeling today is one of grief and despair' Jimmy Carter has spoken of his "grief and despair" at seeing the destruction in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel's 22-day offensive on the territory six months ago. "This is holy land for us all and my hope is that we can have peace … all of us are children of Abraham," the former US president said during a joint news conference with Ismail Haniya, the deposed Hamas Palestinian prime minister, in Gaza City. Following a tour of the area to see the effects of Israel's offensive, Carter said: "My primary feeling today is one of grief and despair and an element of anger when I see the destruction perpetrated against innocent people in January." He said the Palestinians had been treated "like animals" and the deprivations faced by them in Gaza were unique in history. Carter said he was trying to persuade Hamas leaders to accept the international community's conditions for ending its boycott of the movement. The former president said two states were the only viable solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and that he would be reporting his findings from his trip to Gaza and the Middle East back to Barack Obama, the US president. He said he supported the proposition made by Obama in his speech in Cairo earlier this month, with regard to how to achieve peace in the Middle East. Carter said: He [Obama] mentioned several things about the prospective road to peace. "First of all, all settlement expansion should be stopped immediately. "Secondly, that Jerusalem should be shared. Third, that there should be a two-state solution … each occupying their own territory. "Fourth that these two nations should live in peace." Palestinian letter Ayman Mohyeldin, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Gaza, said: "The symbolism [of the visit] is important, raising the issue of the suffering of the Palestinian people through the international media following Carter through Gaza." Carter is believed to have delivered a note to Haniyeh from the parents of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, who has been held since 2006. Jacky Rowland, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Jerusalem, said: "The Israelis will take from Carter what he can offer, for example, the fact that he was able to carry a letter from the family of Gilad Schalit, a letter which will be presumably delivered to Schalit. "But his criticism won't be taken that seriously given that he is not speaking on behalf of the US administration." Mohyeldin said that Carter had earlier met with families of Palestinian prisoners, including an eight-year-old girl who had never met her father as he has been in an Israeli jail since she was born. "So he [Carter] is taking back with him a letter from the Palestinian people to give to Israeli officials, so certainly in that capacity he is also acting as a semi-official mediator between Palestinians and Israelis," Mohyeldin said. Israeli offensive Israel launched its 22-day offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers and the Gazan people on 27 December. Israel's offensive in Gaza destroyed thousands of Palestinian homes [AFP] The operation killed more than 1,400 Palestinians, including more than 900 civilians, among them scores of children, according to Palestinian officials and human rights groups. It also destroyed thousands of homes and heavily damaged Gaza's infrastructure. Israel claims the death toll was lower and most of the dead were Hamas fighters. Thirteen Israelis were also killed during the fighting. Rebuilding Gaza is being hampered by Israel's blockade of Gaza which dates back to June 2007 when Hamas took control of the territory. Since then, Israel and Egypt, which control Gaza's only border crossing that bypasses Israel, have kept the territory of 1.5 million aid-dependent people sealed to all but essential humanitarian supplies. Israel has insisted that the blockade is necessary to prevent Hamas from arming itself, but human rights groups say it is a collective punishment. Carter met with Hamas' exiled leadership in Syria on Thursday and said they wanted "peace and they want to have reconciliation, not only with Fatah brothers but also eventually with the Israelis". http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/200961613038571684.html

02:10 AM Jun 22 2009 | Responder

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Carter: Grief and despair for Gaza

After touring Gaza, Carter said 'my primary feeling today is one of grief and despair'

Jimmy Carter has spoken of his "grief and despair" at seeing the destruction in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel's 22-day offensive on the territory six months ago.

"This is holy land for us all and my hope is that we can have peace … all of us are children of Abraham," the former US president said during a joint news conference with Ismail Haniya, the deposed Hamas Palestinian prime minister, in Gaza City.

Following a tour of the area to see the effects of Israel's offensive, Carter said: "My primary feeling today is one of grief and despair and an element of anger when I see the destruction perpetrated against innocent people in January."

He said the Palestinians had been treated "like animals" and the deprivations faced by them in Gaza were unique in history.

Carter said he was trying to persuade Hamas leaders to accept the international community's conditions for ending its boycott of the movement.

The former president said two states were the only viable solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and that he would be reporting his findings from his trip to Gaza and the Middle East back to Barack Obama, the US president.

He said he supported the proposition made by Obama in his speech in Cairo earlier this month, with regard to how to achieve peace in the Middle East.

Carter said: He [Obama] mentioned several things about the prospective road to peace.

"First of all, all settlement expansion should be stopped immediately.

"Secondly, that Jerusalem should be shared. Third, that there should be a two-state solution … each occupying their own territory.

"Fourth that these two nations should live in peace."

Palestinian letter

Ayman Mohyeldin, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Gaza, said: "The symbolism [of the visit] is important, raising the issue of the suffering of the Palestinian people through the international media following Carter through Gaza."

Carter is believed to have delivered a note to Haniyeh from the parents of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, who has been held since 2006.

Jacky Rowland, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Jerusalem, said: "The Israelis will take from Carter what he can offer, for example, the fact that he was able to carry a letter from the family of Gilad Schalit, a letter which will be presumably delivered to Schalit.

"But his criticism won't be taken that seriously given that he is not speaking on behalf of the US administration."

Mohyeldin said that Carter had earlier met with families of Palestinian prisoners, including an eight-year-old girl who had never met her father as he has been in an Israeli jail since she was born.

"So he [Carter] is taking back with him a letter from the Palestinian people to give to Israeli officials, so certainly in that capacity he is also acting as a semi-official mediator between Palestinians and Israelis," Mohyeldin said.

Israeli offensive

Israel launched its 22-day offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers and the Gazan people on 27 December.

Israel's offensive in Gaza destroyed thousands of Palestinian homes [AFP]

The operation killed more than 1,400 Palestinians, including more than 900 civilians, among them scores of children, according to Palestinian officials and human rights groups.

It also destroyed thousands of homes and heavily damaged Gaza's infrastructure.

Israel claims the death toll was lower and most of the dead were Hamas fighters.

Thirteen Israelis were also killed during the fighting.

Rebuilding Gaza is being hampered by Israel's blockade of Gaza which dates back to June 2007 when Hamas took control of the territory.

Since then, Israel and Egypt, which control Gaza's only border crossing that bypasses Israel, have kept the territory of 1.5 million aid-dependent people sealed to all but essential humanitarian supplies.

Israel has insisted that the blockade is necessary to prevent Hamas from arming itself, but human rights groups say it is a collective punishment.

Carter met with Hamas' exiled leadership in Syria on Thursday and said they wanted "peace and they want to have reconciliation, not only with Fatah brothers but also eventually with the Israelis".

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/200961613038571684.html

03:01 AM Jun 22 2009 \| Responder
arabhamid Algeria	Israel Druze protest against "state discrimination" JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Several hundred Druze demonstrators clashed with police outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office Sunday during a protest against what they said was state discrimination against their community. Demonstrators hurled eggs, sticks and bottles at riot police. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said two policemen and several protesters were injured in the violence. Druze community leaders say that government funding for their villages falls short of allocations for Jewish communities in Israel. "Our soldiers serve at the front but there's no state support at home" read one of the placards at the protest. Druze men are conscripted into Israel's military and the native Arabic speakers are a prominent force in the paramilitary border police, often at the front line of confrontations with Palestinians. The Druze religion is an offshoot of Islam. Netanyahu later met some of the protest leaders. A statement issued by his office said he told them he was aware of the financial problems facing Druze municipal authorities and that he would make a "supreme effort" to help them. "The prime minister told them he was sitting among them thanks to an Israeli hero—a Druze soldier who saved his life," the statement said, without elaborating. Netanyahu is a former Israeli army commando. More than 100,000 Druze live in Israel and another 18,000 live in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, territory captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war. (Writing by Ori Lewis; Editing by Lin Noueihed) http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE55K1FD20090621 Druse, Circassians protest in Jerusalem By JPOST.COM STAFF Print Subscribe E-mail Toolbar + Recommend: What's this? Talkbacks for this article: 21 Article's topics: Druse, Circassian Hundreds of Israeli Druse and Circassians demonstrated outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on Sunday morning and clashed with police forces. Riot police block Druse demonstrators protesting in front of the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem against the lack of infrastructure investments in their villages and demanding equal budgets from the state. Photo: Ariel Jerozolimksi SLIDESHOW: Israel & Region \| World In light of the demonstration, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Interior Minister Eli Yishai met with a delegation of Druse and Circassian leaders, Army Radio reported. Police arrested three protesters after several people tried to break into the compound. Seven policemen and two demonstrators were lightly wounded in the clashes. The demonstrators were protesting what they called discrimination against them in the allocations of funds for local authorities in their towns and villages. They called on the government to cancel the local authorities' outstanding debts, to create income sources and to increase government funds to the Druse and Circassian villages. "In war, a Jew and a Druse are equal, in the budget, ten Druse children are like one Jewish child," read one banner held by the protesters. The demonstrators hurled water bottles, tomatoes and hard-boiled eggs at police, and waved flags, including the Israeli flag, Israel Radio reported. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1245184886924

03:01 AM Jun 22 2009 | Responder

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Israel Druze protest against "state discrimination"

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Several hundred Druze demonstrators clashed with police outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office Sunday during a protest against what they said was state discrimination against their community.

Demonstrators hurled eggs, sticks and bottles at riot police. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said two policemen and several protesters were injured in the violence.

Druze community leaders say that government funding for their villages falls short of allocations for Jewish communities in Israel.

"Our soldiers serve at the front but there's no state support at home" read one of the placards at the protest.

Druze men are conscripted into Israel's military and the native Arabic speakers are a prominent force in the paramilitary border police, often at the front line of confrontations with Palestinians. The Druze religion is an offshoot of Islam.

Netanyahu later met some of the protest leaders. A statement issued by his office said he told them he was aware of the financial problems facing Druze municipal authorities and that he would make a "supreme effort" to help them.

"The prime minister told them he was sitting among them thanks to an Israeli hero—a Druze soldier who saved his life," the statement said, without elaborating.

Netanyahu is a former Israeli army commando.

More than 100,000 Druze live in Israel and another 18,000 live in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, territory captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war.

(Writing by Ori Lewis; Editing by Lin Noueihed)

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE55K1FD20090621

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Hundreds of Israeli Druse and Circassians demonstrated outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on Sunday morning and clashed with police forces.

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SLIDESHOW: Israel & Region | World

In light of the demonstration, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Interior Minister Eli Yishai met with a delegation of Druse and Circassian leaders, Army Radio reported.

Police arrested three protesters after several people tried to break into the compound. Seven policemen and two demonstrators were lightly wounded in the clashes.

The demonstrators were protesting what they called discrimination against them in the allocations of funds for local authorities in their towns and villages.

They called on the government to cancel the local authorities' outstanding debts, to create income sources and to increase government funds to the Druse and Circassian villages.

"In war, a Jew and a Druse are equal, in the budget, ten Druse children are like one Jewish child," read one banner held by the protesters.

The demonstrators hurled water bottles, tomatoes and hard-boiled eggs at police, and waved flags, including the Israeli flag, Israel Radio reported.

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05:34 AM Jun 22 2009 \| Responder
arabhamid Algeria	"Open doors", an appeal by 59 Nobel Prize winners and 202 MEPs against the blockade of Gaza 58 Nobel Prize, 202 MEPs, but also Michel Rocard, Yasmina Khadra, Martin Gray, Noam Chomsky … cosignent call "open doors" to request the lifting of the siege of Gaza. "A million and half people are still locked up, subjected to arbitrary fullest. An activist opposed to the blockade of the Gaza Strip (Reuters) a clash on 8 June 2009, at the Gaza border, reminding us how the situation remains volatile. 4 killed and 12 wounded among the Palestinians, no Israeli losses. In the Gaza Strip on a 4000 list of "authorized products" with Israel (before the siege imposed since June 2007), 30 to 40 are only tolerated now, and one and a half million people remain trapped, subject to arbitrariness the total. Books, CDs, clothing, fabrics, shoes, needles, light bulbs, candles, matches, musical instruments, linens, blankets, mattresses, cups, glasses … are prohibited and can not pass by the fragile tunnels to Egypt, targets repeated bombings. In 2008, more than fifty people died in these tunnels, following collapse. None of the materials needed for reconstruction (cement, doors, windows, windows …) are no longer allowed after the horrific bombing in December 2008-January 2009. Tea, coffee, meal, are still banned (see survey Amira Hass "Israel bans books, music and clothes from entering Gaza," Haaretz, 17 May 2009). 59 Nobel Prizes, including 10 Nobel Peace Prize, 202 members of Parliament (2004-2009), and personalities involved with the NGO Peace Lines to Open the Doors campaign for the final lifting of the siege of Gaza and a series releases according to humanitarian and legal criteria. We call on all political leaders and members of the new European Parliament to do everything possible for these releases – including that of Sergeant Shalit and the former Minister of Education Al Shaer, rearrested on 19 March, under conditions contrary to international law. Europe and the Union for the Mediterranean can not continue to tolerate their doors to such conditions of deprivation and suffocation. CALL TO OPEN THE DOOR! " Israel must end the blockade of Gaza, all the killing and allow Gaza to open the world to ensure the possibility of a viable economy. The Palestinians must put an end to rocket attacks on Israel and Israelis. Human beings are not a bargaining chip. Therefore: The Palestinians must release the sergeant to hold Shalit prisoner for almost three years. The Israelis, who hold more than ten thousand people in their prisons, must release a significant number of women prisoners, the sick, those who are older, after lengthy sentences, and that prisoners in administrative detention, including all elected members of the Palestinian legislature. 56 Nobel Prize Nobel Peace Prize: Bishop Carlos Belo, the Dalai Lama, Shirin Ebadi, John Hume, Mairead Maguire, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Cora Weiss (Representative of the United Nations, The International Peace Bureau), Betty Williams, Jody Williams. Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Peter Agree, Paul Berg, Thomas Cech, Elias Corey, Robert Curl, Johann Deisenhofer, Manfred Eigen, Richard Ernst, John Fenn, Herbert Hauptman, Alan Heeger, Dudley Herschbach, Roald Hoffmann, Robert Huber, Sir Harold Kroto , Yuan T. Lee, William Lipscomb, Jens Skou. Nobel Prize in Medicine: Baruj Benacerraf, Günter Blobel, Arvid Carlsson, Christian de Duve, Martin Evans, Edmond Fischer, Roger Guillemin, Louis Ignarro, Erwin Neher, Marshall Nirenberg, Paul Nurse, Richard Roberts, E. Donnall Thomas, Torsten Wiesel, Eric Kandel. Nobel Prize in Physics: Zhores Alferov, Albert Fert, Donald Glaser, John Hall, Brian Josephson, Tony Leggett, Jack Steinberger, Gerardus' t Hooft, Daniel Tsui, Martinus Veltman, Douglas Osheroff. Nobel Prize for Literature: Dario For, Elfriede Jelinek, Wole Soyinka, Toni Morrison. Nobel Prize: James Mirrlees. 202 MEPs ( European Parliamentary ) France: Kader Arif, Catherine Boursier, Françoise Castex, Jouye Madeleine de Grandmaison, Harlem Désir, Hélène Flautre, Nicole Fontaine (former President of the European Parliament), Jean-Paul Gauzès, Marie Anne Isler Béguin, Anne Laperrouze, Alain Lipietz, General Philippe Morillon, Elisabeth Morin, Gérard Onesta (Vice-Chairman of Parliament), Béatrice Patrie, Martine Roure, Tokia Saïfi Margie Sudre, Bernadette Vergnaud, Francis Wurtz. Germany: Alexander Alvaro, Angelika Beer, Breyer Hildrud, André Brie, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Michael Cramer, Evelyne Gebhardt, Rebecca Harms, Milan Horáček, Gisela Kallenbach, Jo Leinen, Helmut Markov, Cem Özdemir, Tobias Pflüger, Horst Posdorf, Heide Rühle, Frithjof Schmidt, Feleknas Uca, Sahra Wagenknecht, Gabriele Zimmer. Great Britain: Christopher Beazley, John Bowis, Sharon Bowles, Chris Davies, Bairbre de Brún, Andrew Duff, Jill Evans, Sajjad Karim, Jean Lambert, Caroline Lucas, Elizabeth Lynne, David Martin, Linda McAvan, Malcolm Harbor, Claude Moraes, Bill Newton Dunn, John Purvis, Alyn Smith, Diana Wallis (Vice-Chairman of Parliament) Belgium: Ivo Belet, Frieda Brepoels Philippe Busquin, Giovanna Corda, Jean-Luc Dehaene, Véronique de Keyser (Chef de Mission of Observers of the European Union for the Palestinian legislative elections, Vice-Chairman of the Working Group on Middle East), Gérard Deprez, Mia de Vits (Quaestor), Said El Khadraoui, Mathieu Grosch, Alain Hutchinson, Pierre Jonckheer, Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Bart Staes, Dirk Sterckx, Johan Van Hecke, Anne Van Lancker. Spain: Maria Badia i Cutchet Barbara Dührkop Dührkop Josep Borrell Fontelles, Juan Fraile Cantón, Vicente Miguel Garcés Ramón, Martí Grau i Segú, Ignasi Guardans Cambó, David Hammerstein, Mikel Irujo Amezaga, Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez (Vice-Chairman of Parliament ), Emilio Menéndez del Valle, Willy Meyer Pleite, Raül Romeva i Rueda. Ireland: Liam Aylward, Colm Burke, Brian Crowley, Proinsias de Rossa, Avril Doyle, Marian Harkin, Jim Higgins, Mary Lou McDonald, Mairead McGuinness, Gay Mitchell, Sean O Neachtain, Eoin Ryan, Kathy Sinnott. Italy: Vittorio Agnoletto, Giuletto Chiesa, Fabio Ciani, Cocilovo (Vice-Chairman of Parliament), Monica Frassoni, Donata Gottardi, Umberto Guidoni (astronaut), Sepp Kusstatscher, Morgantini (Vice-Chairman of Parliament), Pasqualina Napoletano, Vittorio Prodi. Sweden: Jan Andersson, Göran Färm Goudin Helena, Anna Hedh, Jens Holm, Maria Robsahm, Carl Schlyter, Segelström Inger, Eva-Britt Svensson, Åsa Westlund, Anders Wijkman. Holland: Emine Bozkurt, Dorette Corbey, Jan Cremers, Elly de Groen, Lily Jacobs, Joost Lagendijk, Kartika Tamara Liotard, Jules Maaten, Erik Meijer, Jan Marinus Wiersma. Lithuania: Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Degutis Arūnas, Jolanta Dičkut, Gintaras Did? Iokas, Eugenijus Gentvilas, Vytautas Landsbergis, Eugenijus Maldeikis, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Aloyzas Sakalas. Czech Republic: Richard Falbr, Flasarová Věra, Jaromir Kohlíček, Jiri Mastalka, Miloslav Ransdorf, Vladimir Remek, Daniel Stro?, Tomas Zatloukal, Jaroslav Zvěřina. Portugal: Maria da Assunção Esteves, Edite Estrela, Armando França, Ana Maria Gomes, Ilda Figueiredo, Jamila Madeira, Miguel Portas. Greece: Costas Botopoulos, Giorgios Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitris Papadimoulis, Antonios Trakatellis Vakalis Nikolaos, Ioannis Varvitsiotis. Cyprus: Adamos Adamou, Panayiotis Demetriou, Ioannis Kasoulides, Marios Matsakis, Yiannakis Matsis, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides (Chairman, Delegation for Relations with Parliament Palestinian). Poland: Adam Gierek, Urszula Krupa, Wiesław Stefan Kuc, Rutowicz Leopold, Tadeusz Zwiefka. Romania: Cristian Silviu Busoi, Gabriela Creţu, Magor Imre Csibi, Renate Weber. Finland: Satu Hassi, Piia-Noora Kauppi, Reino Paasilinna, Sirpa Pietikäinen. Slovenia: Mihael Brejc, Mojca Murko Drčar, Jelko Kacin, Alojz Peterle Denmark: Margrete Auken, Johannes Lebech, Soren Sondergaard. Latvia: Guntars Krasts (former Prime Minister of Latvia), Tatjana Zdanoka. Luxembourg Erna Hennicot-Schoepges, Claude Turmes. Austria: Harald Ettl, Karin Resetarits. Bulgaria: Mariela Velichkova Baeva. Slovakia: Árpád Duka-Zólyomi. Hungary: Kósáné Magda Kovács. Estonia: Toomas Savi. Malta: Louis Grech. Authors Yasmina Khadra, Franca Rame, Noam Chomsky, Martin Gray (resistant survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto), David Grossman, Amos Oz, Michel Rocard (former Prime Minister) source : Le Nouvel Observateur – Frensh newpaper http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualites/international/proche_moyenorient/20090612.OBS0341/ouvrez_les_portes_un_appel_de_59_prix_nobel_et_202_euro.html

05:34 AM Jun 22 2009 | Responder

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"Open doors", an appeal by 59 Nobel Prize winners and 202 MEPs against the blockade of Gaza

58 Nobel Prize, 202 MEPs, but also Michel Rocard, Yasmina Khadra, Martin Gray, Noam Chomsky … cosignent call "open doors" to request the lifting of the siege of Gaza. "A million and half people are still locked up, subjected to arbitrary fullest.

An activist opposed to the blockade of the Gaza Strip (Reuters)

a clash on 8 June 2009, at the Gaza border, reminding us how the situation remains volatile. 4 killed and 12 wounded among the Palestinians, no Israeli losses. In the Gaza Strip on a 4000 list of "authorized products" with Israel (before the siege imposed since June 2007), 30 to 40 are only tolerated now, and one and a half million people remain trapped, subject to arbitrariness the total.

Books, CDs, clothing, fabrics, shoes, needles, light bulbs, candles, matches, musical instruments, linens, blankets, mattresses, cups, glasses … are prohibited and can not pass by the fragile tunnels to Egypt, targets repeated bombings. In 2008, more than fifty people died in these tunnels, following collapse. None of the materials needed for reconstruction (cement, doors, windows, windows …) are no longer allowed after the horrific bombing in December 2008-January 2009. Tea, coffee, meal, are still banned (see survey Amira Hass "Israel bans books, music and clothes from entering Gaza," Haaretz, 17 May 2009).

59 Nobel Prizes, including 10 Nobel Peace Prize, 202 members of Parliament (2004-2009), and personalities involved with the NGO Peace Lines to Open the Doors campaign for the final lifting of the siege of Gaza and a series releases according to humanitarian and legal criteria.

We call on all political leaders and members of the new European Parliament to do everything possible for these releases – including that of Sergeant Shalit and the former Minister of Education Al Shaer, rearrested on 19 March, under conditions contrary to international law. Europe and the Union for the Mediterranean can not continue to tolerate their doors to such conditions of deprivation and suffocation.

CALL TO OPEN THE DOOR! "

Israel must end the blockade of Gaza, all the killing and allow Gaza to open the world to ensure the possibility of a viable economy.

The Palestinians must put an end to rocket attacks on Israel and Israelis.

Human beings are not a bargaining chip.

Therefore:

The Palestinians must release the sergeant to hold Shalit prisoner for almost three years.

The Israelis, who hold more than ten thousand people in their prisons, must release a significant number of women prisoners, the sick, those who are older, after lengthy sentences, and that prisoners in administrative detention, including all elected members of the Palestinian legislature.

56 Nobel Prize

Nobel Peace Prize: Bishop Carlos Belo, the Dalai Lama, Shirin Ebadi, John Hume, Mairead Maguire, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Cora Weiss (Representative of the United Nations, The International Peace Bureau), Betty Williams, Jody Williams.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Peter Agree, Paul Berg, Thomas Cech, Elias Corey, Robert Curl, Johann Deisenhofer, Manfred Eigen, Richard Ernst, John Fenn, Herbert Hauptman, Alan Heeger, Dudley Herschbach, Roald Hoffmann, Robert Huber, Sir Harold Kroto , Yuan T. Lee, William Lipscomb, Jens Skou.

Nobel Prize in Medicine: Baruj Benacerraf, Günter Blobel, Arvid Carlsson, Christian de Duve, Martin Evans, Edmond Fischer, Roger Guillemin, Louis Ignarro, Erwin Neher, Marshall Nirenberg, Paul Nurse, Richard Roberts, E. Donnall Thomas, Torsten Wiesel, Eric Kandel.

Nobel Prize in Physics: Zhores Alferov, Albert Fert, Donald Glaser, John Hall, Brian Josephson, Tony Leggett, Jack Steinberger, Gerardus' t Hooft, Daniel Tsui, Martinus Veltman, Douglas Osheroff.

Nobel Prize for Literature: Dario For, Elfriede Jelinek, Wole Soyinka, Toni Morrison.

Nobel Prize: James Mirrlees.

202 MEPs ( European Parliamentary )

France: Kader Arif, Catherine Boursier, Françoise Castex, Jouye Madeleine de Grandmaison, Harlem Désir, Hélène Flautre, Nicole Fontaine (former President of the European Parliament), Jean-Paul Gauzès, Marie Anne Isler Béguin, Anne Laperrouze, Alain Lipietz, General Philippe Morillon, Elisabeth Morin, Gérard Onesta (Vice-Chairman of Parliament), Béatrice Patrie, Martine Roure, Tokia Saïfi Margie Sudre, Bernadette Vergnaud, Francis Wurtz.

Germany: Alexander Alvaro, Angelika Beer, Breyer Hildrud, André Brie, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Michael Cramer, Evelyne Gebhardt, Rebecca Harms, Milan Horáček, Gisela Kallenbach, Jo Leinen, Helmut Markov, Cem Özdemir, Tobias Pflüger, Horst Posdorf, Heide Rühle, Frithjof Schmidt, Feleknas Uca, Sahra Wagenknecht, Gabriele Zimmer.

Great Britain: Christopher Beazley, John Bowis, Sharon Bowles, Chris Davies, Bairbre de Brún, Andrew Duff, Jill Evans, Sajjad Karim, Jean Lambert, Caroline Lucas, Elizabeth Lynne, David Martin, Linda McAvan, Malcolm Harbor, Claude Moraes, Bill Newton Dunn, John Purvis, Alyn Smith, Diana Wallis (Vice-Chairman of Parliament)

Belgium: Ivo Belet, Frieda Brepoels Philippe Busquin, Giovanna Corda, Jean-Luc Dehaene, Véronique de Keyser (Chef de Mission of Observers of the European Union for the Palestinian legislative elections, Vice-Chairman of the Working Group on Middle East), Gérard Deprez, Mia de Vits (Quaestor), Said El Khadraoui, Mathieu Grosch, Alain Hutchinson, Pierre Jonckheer, Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Bart Staes, Dirk Sterckx, Johan Van Hecke, Anne Van Lancker.

Spain: Maria Badia i Cutchet Barbara Dührkop Dührkop Josep Borrell Fontelles, Juan Fraile Cantón, Vicente Miguel Garcés Ramón, Martí Grau i Segú, Ignasi Guardans Cambó, David Hammerstein, Mikel Irujo Amezaga, Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez (Vice-Chairman of Parliament ), Emilio Menéndez del Valle, Willy Meyer Pleite, Raül Romeva i Rueda.

Ireland: Liam Aylward, Colm Burke, Brian Crowley, Proinsias de Rossa, Avril Doyle, Marian Harkin, Jim Higgins, Mary Lou McDonald, Mairead McGuinness, Gay Mitchell, Sean O Neachtain, Eoin Ryan, Kathy Sinnott.

Italy: Vittorio Agnoletto, Giuletto Chiesa, Fabio Ciani, Cocilovo (Vice-Chairman of Parliament), Monica Frassoni, Donata Gottardi, Umberto Guidoni (astronaut), Sepp Kusstatscher, Morgantini (Vice-Chairman of Parliament), Pasqualina Napoletano, Vittorio Prodi.

Sweden: Jan Andersson, Göran Färm Goudin Helena, Anna Hedh, Jens Holm, Maria Robsahm, Carl Schlyter, Segelström Inger, Eva-Britt Svensson, Åsa Westlund, Anders Wijkman.

Holland: Emine Bozkurt, Dorette Corbey, Jan Cremers, Elly de Groen, Lily Jacobs, Joost Lagendijk, Kartika Tamara Liotard, Jules Maaten, Erik Meijer, Jan Marinus Wiersma.

Lithuania: Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Degutis Arūnas, Jolanta Dičkut, Gintaras Did? Iokas, Eugenijus Gentvilas, Vytautas Landsbergis, Eugenijus Maldeikis, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Aloyzas Sakalas.

Czech Republic: Richard Falbr, Flasarová Věra, Jaromir Kohlíček, Jiri Mastalka, Miloslav Ransdorf, Vladimir Remek, Daniel Stro?, Tomas Zatloukal, Jaroslav Zvěřina.

Portugal: Maria da Assunção Esteves, Edite Estrela, Armando França, Ana Maria Gomes, Ilda Figueiredo, Jamila Madeira, Miguel Portas.

Greece: Costas Botopoulos, Giorgios Dimitrakopoulos, Dimitris Papadimoulis, Antonios Trakatellis Vakalis Nikolaos, Ioannis Varvitsiotis.

Cyprus: Adamos Adamou, Panayiotis Demetriou, Ioannis Kasoulides, Marios Matsakis, Yiannakis Matsis, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides (Chairman, Delegation for Relations with Parliament Palestinian).

Poland: Adam Gierek, Urszula Krupa, Wiesław Stefan Kuc, Rutowicz Leopold, Tadeusz Zwiefka.

Romania: Cristian Silviu Busoi, Gabriela Creţu, Magor Imre Csibi, Renate Weber.

Finland: Satu Hassi, Piia-Noora Kauppi, Reino Paasilinna, Sirpa Pietikäinen.

Slovenia: Mihael Brejc, Mojca Murko Drčar, Jelko Kacin, Alojz Peterle

Denmark: Margrete Auken, Johannes Lebech, Soren Sondergaard.

Latvia: Guntars Krasts (former Prime Minister of Latvia), Tatjana Zdanoka.

Luxembourg Erna Hennicot-Schoepges, Claude Turmes.

Austria: Harald Ettl, Karin Resetarits.

Bulgaria: Mariela Velichkova Baeva.

Slovakia: Árpád Duka-Zólyomi.

Hungary: Kósáné Magda Kovács.

Estonia: Toomas Savi.

Malta: Louis Grech.

Authors

Yasmina Khadra, Franca Rame, Noam Chomsky, Martin Gray (resistant survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto), David Grossman, Amos Oz, Michel Rocard (former Prime Minister)

source : Le Nouvel Observateur – Frensh newpaper

http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualites/international/proche_moyenorient/20090612.OBS0341/ouvrez_les_portes_un_appel_de_59_prix_nobel_et_202_euro.html

06:52 AM Jun 22 2009 \| Responder
Djouzi Algeria	nice topic man ! people must feel emotional and do not reject the problem of palestin

06:52 AM Jun 22 2009 | Responder

Djouzi

Algeria

nice topic man !

people must feel emotional and do not reject the problem of palestin

06:22 AM Jun 23 2009 \| Responder
arabhamid Algeria	I want this time, to explain a very important thing about Al-Quds. some people confuse between Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and some think that Dome of the Rock called (Kobat Sakhra قبة الصخرة) is Al-Aqsa Mosque. So becareful, and don't confuse, because some people try to make Muslims think that, to make them able to destroy the Aksa Mosque in the future. so, compare between the two sites, and see this pictures to understand. the Dome of the Rock (مسجد قبة الصخرة Al-Aksa Mosque (المسجد الأقصى) Where the prophet Mohamed (peace be upon him) payed with all the Prophets, from Prophet Jesus to Adam, peace be upon them all. Allah says in the holly Quran : sourat Al-Isra : 01 ”سبحان الذي أسرى بعبده ليلا من المسجد الحرام إلى المسجد الأقصى الذي باركنا حوله لنريه من آياتنا ، إنه هـو السميـع البصيـر (1)“ ]سورة الإسراء[ Glory to (Allah) Who did take His servant for a Journey by night from the Sacred Mosque to the farthest Mosque, whose precincts We did bless,- in order that We might show him some of Our Signs: for He is the One Who heareth and seeth (all things). I hope that you got the message, and don't make and confuse between Al-Aksa Mosque and Dome of the Rock.

06:22 AM Jun 23 2009 | Responder

arabhamid

Algeria

I want this time, to explain a very important thing about Al-Quds.

some people confuse between Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and some think that Dome of the Rock called (Kobat Sakhra قبة الصخرة) is Al-Aqsa Mosque.

So becareful, and don't confuse, because some people try to make Muslims think that, to make them able to destroy the Aksa Mosque in the future.

so, compare between the two sites, and see this pictures to understand.

the Dome of the Rock (مسجد قبة الصخرة

Al-Aksa Mosque (المسجد الأقصى)

Where the prophet Mohamed (peace be upon him) payed with all the Prophets, from Prophet Jesus to Adam, peace be upon them all.

Allah says in the holly Quran : sourat Al-Isra : 01

”سبحان الذي أسرى بعبده ليلا من المسجد الحرام إلى المسجد الأقصى الذي باركنا حوله لنريه من آياتنا ، إنه هـو السميـع البصيـر (1)“ ]سورة الإسراء[

Glory to (Allah) Who did take His servant for a Journey by night from the Sacred Mosque to the farthest Mosque, whose precincts We did bless,- in order that We might show him some of Our Signs: for He is the One Who heareth and seeth (all things).

I hope that you got the message, and don't make and confuse between Al-Aksa Mosque and Dome of the Rock.

03:29 AM Jun 24 2009 \| Responder
arabhamid Algeria	Israeli minister's visit to mosque sparks anger JERUSALEM, June 23 (Reuters) – An Israeli cabinet minister who made headlines last week for racist remarks about Arabs paid a rare visit to Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque on Tuesday, prompting condemnation from Palestinian religious leaders. Nine years ago, a similar visit sparked a bloody uprising. Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch, a member of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's ultranationalist Yisrael Beitenu party, went to Islam's third holiest site to review police deployments in the flashpoint area, his spokesman said. He said the visit was coordinated with Muslim authorities, a remark contradicted by the city's leading cleric. During the 90-minute visit, Aharonovitch entered the mosque, which sits in a complex in the Old City known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary) and to Jews as the Temple Mount. The area also houses the gilded Dome of the Rock shrine. Israel captured the site in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it with the rest of East Jerusalem, in a move not recognised internationally. Visits to the compound by Israeli officials are rare and extremely sensitive. A Palestinian uprising, known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada, erupted in 2000 following a visit to the compound by right-wing politician Ariel Sharon. He later became Israel's prime minister. "The intention of the visit was to see how the police would deploy in case of an emergency," Aharonovitch's spokesman Tal Harel said. He said the visit was coordinated with Muslim custodians of the site, known as the Waqf, or endowment. "We went everywhere. We were accompanied by the Waqf, who were fully aware of our presence, and this was planned in coordination with them well ahead of the visit," Harel added. The Palestinian-appointed Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammed Hussein, said the visit was not coordinated in advance. "He does not have the right to visit al-Aqsa because it is an Islamic site and not a Jewish site, and it could ignite violence because the visit provokes the feelings of Muslims… It is an assault on an Islamic place," Hussein said. It was Aharonovitch's first visit as minister. Last week, Arab opposition members of Israel's parliament called for Aharonovitch to resign over comments he made during a meeting with police officers. In television footage, the minister, responding to an undercover police agent who apologised for his dirty clothes, said with a laugh: "What do you mean dirty? You look like a real 'Araboosh'", a derogatory term for an Arab in Hebrew slang. Aharonovitch apologised for the remark. (Reporting by Ori Lewis in Jerusalem and Mohammed Assadi in Ramallah; Editing by Dominic Evans) (For blogs and links on Israeli politics and other Israeli and Palestinian news, go to blogs.reuters.com/axismundi) Bad omen For its part, described the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) are carried out by the Israeli minister, who belongs to Israel's ultra as a bad omen, and said that the Islamic nation that protects the accepted first. In a press statement, Hamas said it is critical to consider the seriousness of this visit, which carries with it many of the contents of the challenge and the explicit intention of the State of Israel to continue its efforts to Judaize the holy Al-Aqsa mosque. Hamas has warned that any breach of Baloqsy push the entire region to the disadvantage consequences, note that the Al-Aqsa Intifada began in direct response to the visit of Ariel Sharon to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the attempt to defiling. Moses: What has happened shows the seriousness of Israel towards peace (European – Archive) Arab criticism The Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Amr Moussa has criticized strongly by the Israeli minister said that the move "is part of the absurd and provocative actions carried out by some Israeli officials," he said, adding that "it is not courage that any Israeli official broke this sacred place, using Army well armed occupation. " He said that "what happened before referring to Israeli officials over the lack of seriousness in the Israeli position towards the peace process." For its part, condemned the Jordanian government has done what the Israeli minister, describing it as provocative, calling on Israel to immediately stop such practices that it said threaten the chances for peace. It called on the Jordanian Minister of State for Information and Communication, Nabil al-Sharif on Israel to "refrain from all actions taken by one of the obscure historical identity of the holy city is surrounded by her family and displacements."

03:29 AM Jun 24 2009 | Responder

arabhamid

Algeria

Israeli minister's visit to mosque sparks anger

JERUSALEM, June 23 (Reuters) – An Israeli cabinet minister who made headlines last week for racist remarks about Arabs paid a rare visit to Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque on Tuesday, prompting condemnation from Palestinian religious leaders.

Nine years ago, a similar visit sparked a bloody uprising.

Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch, a member of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's ultranationalist Yisrael Beitenu party, went to Islam's third holiest site to review police deployments in the flashpoint area, his spokesman said.

He said the visit was coordinated with Muslim authorities, a remark contradicted by the city's leading cleric.

During the 90-minute visit, Aharonovitch entered the mosque, which sits in a complex in the Old City known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary) and to Jews as the Temple Mount. The area also houses the gilded Dome of the Rock shrine.

Israel captured the site in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it with the rest of East Jerusalem, in a move not recognised internationally.

Visits to the compound by Israeli officials are rare and extremely sensitive. A Palestinian uprising, known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada, erupted in 2000 following a visit to the compound by right-wing politician Ariel Sharon. He later became Israel's prime minister.

"The intention of the visit was to see how the police would deploy in case of an emergency," Aharonovitch's spokesman Tal Harel said. He said the visit was coordinated with Muslim custodians of the site, known as the Waqf, or endowment.

"We went everywhere. We were accompanied by the Waqf, who were fully aware of our presence, and this was planned in coordination with them well ahead of the visit," Harel added.

The Palestinian-appointed Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammed Hussein, said the visit was not coordinated in advance.

"He does not have the right to visit al-Aqsa because it is an Islamic site and not a Jewish site, and it could ignite violence because the visit provokes the feelings of Muslims… It is an assault on an Islamic place," Hussein said.

It was Aharonovitch's first visit as minister.

Last week, Arab opposition members of Israel's parliament called for Aharonovitch to resign over comments he made during a meeting with police officers.

In television footage, the minister, responding to an undercover police agent who apologised for his dirty clothes, said with a laugh: "What do you mean dirty? You look like a real 'Araboosh'", a derogatory term for an Arab in Hebrew slang.

Aharonovitch apologised for the remark. (Reporting by Ori Lewis in Jerusalem and Mohammed Assadi in Ramallah; Editing by Dominic Evans) (For blogs and links on Israeli politics and other Israeli and Palestinian news, go to blogs.reuters.com/axismundi)

Bad omen

For its part, described the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) are carried out by the Israeli minister, who belongs to Israel's ultra as a bad omen, and said that the Islamic nation that protects the accepted first.

In a press statement, Hamas said it is critical to consider the seriousness of this visit, which carries with it many of the contents of the challenge and the explicit intention of the State of Israel to continue its efforts to Judaize the holy Al-Aqsa mosque.

Hamas has warned that any breach of Baloqsy push the entire region to the disadvantage consequences, note that the Al-Aqsa Intifada began in direct response to the visit of Ariel Sharon to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the attempt to defiling.

Moses: What has happened shows the seriousness of Israel towards peace (European – Archive)

Arab criticism

The Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Amr Moussa has criticized strongly by the Israeli minister said that the move "is part of the absurd and provocative actions carried out by some Israeli officials," he said, adding that "it is not courage that any Israeli official broke this sacred place, using Army well armed occupation. "

He said that "what happened before referring to Israeli officials over the lack of seriousness in the Israeli position towards the peace process."

For its part, condemned the Jordanian government has done what the Israeli minister, describing it as provocative, calling on Israel to immediately stop such practices that it said threaten the chances for peace.

It called on the Jordanian Minister of State for Information and Communication, Nabil al-Sharif on Israel to "refrain from all actions taken by one of the obscure historical identity of the holy city is surrounded by her family and displacements."

03:39 AM Jun 24 2009 \| Responder
arabhamid Algeria	Israel seeks to destroy more Palestinian homes Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:42:52 GMT Israeli forces destroying a Palestinian-owned building in al-Quads Israel orders the destruction of a dozen Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem (al-Quds) as part of Tel Aviv's efforts to increase the number of Jewish settlements there. The demolition orders are issued under the pretext that the buildings lack permits, says Israeli municipality in Jerusalem. The residents, however, argue that Israeli officials have been withholding their documents or were refusing to issue documents for their houses. Over the past week the Israeli municipality forced four families to demolish parts of their homes, claiming that they lacked the required permission. While the municipality says it is simply enforcing the law, several rights groups have repeatedly said that the demolition order, which forces hundreds of Palestinians to leave their homes in East Jerusalem, is politically-motivated and aims at increasing the number of Jewish settlements there. Hatem Abdel Qader, an official responsible for Jerusalem affairs in the Palestinian government, says Israel has ordered the demolition of more than 1,000 Palestinian homes since the start of this year, which means that the pace of destroying Palestinian homes in Jerusalem is increasing in recent months despite world wide condemnations. Instead, Tel Aviv is continuing the expansion of the Jewish settlements in the occupied territory, which is considered as the main obstacle to end the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Palestinians want East Jerusalem (al-Quds) to be the capital of their future state. http://www.poica.org/editor/case_studies/view.php?recordID=760

03:39 AM Jun 24 2009 | Responder

arabhamid

Algeria

Israel seeks to destroy more Palestinian homes
Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:42:52 GMT

Israeli forces destroying a Palestinian-owned building in al-Quads

Israel orders the destruction of a dozen Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem (al-Quds) as part of Tel Aviv's efforts to increase the number of Jewish settlements there.

The demolition orders are issued under the pretext that the buildings lack permits, says Israeli municipality in Jerusalem.

The residents, however, argue that Israeli officials have been withholding their documents or were refusing to issue documents for their houses.

Over the past week the Israeli municipality forced four families to demolish parts of their homes, claiming that they lacked the required permission.

While the municipality says it is simply enforcing the law, several rights groups have repeatedly said that the demolition order, which forces hundreds of Palestinians to leave their homes in East Jerusalem, is politically-motivated and aims at increasing the number of Jewish settlements there.

Hatem Abdel Qader, an official responsible for Jerusalem affairs in the Palestinian government, says Israel has ordered the demolition of more than 1,000 Palestinian homes since the start of this year, which means that the pace of destroying Palestinian homes in Jerusalem is increasing in recent months despite world wide condemnations.

Instead, Tel Aviv is continuing the expansion of the Jewish settlements in the occupied territory, which is considered as the main obstacle to end the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Palestinians want East Jerusalem (al-Quds) to be the capital of their future state.

http://www.poica.org/editor/case_studies/view.php?recordID=760

03:43 AM Jun 24 2009 \| Responder
aliyatul_hikmah Indonesia	O_o Thanks for the posting Hamid….. I'm like read a magazine…... I need time to read whole of it….. We always waiting great editions like this…. moreover, SPECIAL EDITION…. inshaAllah in another time I'll give comment again…..

03:43 AM Jun 24 2009 | Responder

aliyatul_hikmah

Indonesia

O_o

Thanks for the posting Hamid…..

I'm like read a magazine…... I need time to read whole of it…..

We always waiting great editions like this….

moreover, SPECIAL EDITION….

inshaAllah in another time I'll give comment again…..

03:43 AM Jun 24 2009 \| Responder
arabhamid Algeria	Israel defies world builds more in WB : Despite repeated international calls for a halt in the expansion of settlements, Israel continues the construction of illegal buildings in the occupied West Bank. Defense Minister Ehud Barak approved the construction of 240 new homes in the West Bank on Tuesday, Haaretz reported. Based on the report 60 of the 300 homes slated for the Talmon settlement have already been built. While the international community including the US, Israel's closes ally, has been calling for a complete freeze in the expansion of the settlements in the occupied West Bank, Israel insists that it will continue the construction work to meet the demands caused by "natural growth." Israel's settlement activities have been widely regarded as the main obstacle in the way of Middle East peace process. The World Court has also ruled all settlements illegal under international law. Israel to jump-start its settlement expansion Israel is to allocate $ 250 million to further expand its settlements in the occupied West Bank territories over the next two years despite international objections. The figure is contained in the 2009-2010 budget, which passed its first reading in the Knesset (parliament) last week, army radio said Sunday. The move by the Knesset comes despite calls by the international community including Tel Aviv's staunch ally-~~Washington~~- to Israel to halt its settlement expansion. Some 125 million dollars (90 million euros) is to be used for various security expenses, with most of the rest allocated to housing construction, the radio said. The Peace Now anti-settlement watchdog has declared that the settlement spending in the two-year budget could be far higher that by "spreading over several sections of budget." "The official figures are nothing but the tip of the iceberg and the Israelis will pay not only a political price for the settlements, but also an economic one," the head of the group Yariv Oppenheimer said. Israel's two-year 159-billion-dollar budget must pass two more readings in the Knesset. Israel's settlement activities have been described as the main obstacle in the way of the peace process

03:43 AM Jun 24 2009 | Responder

arabhamid

Algeria

Israel defies world builds more in WB :

Despite repeated international calls for a halt in the expansion of settlements, Israel continues the construction of illegal buildings in the occupied West Bank.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak approved the construction of 240 new homes in the West Bank on Tuesday, Haaretz reported.

Based on the report 60 of the 300 homes slated for the Talmon settlement have already been built.

While the international community including the US, Israel's closes ally, has been calling for a complete freeze in the expansion of the settlements in the occupied West Bank, Israel insists that it will continue the construction work to meet the demands caused by "natural growth."

Israel's settlement activities have been widely regarded as the main obstacle in the way of Middle East peace process.

The World Court has also ruled all settlements illegal under international law.

Israel to jump-start its settlement expansion

Israel is to allocate $ 250 million to further expand its settlements in the occupied West Bank territories over the next two years despite international objections.

The figure is contained in the 2009-2010 budget, which passed its first reading in the Knesset (parliament) last week, army radio said Sunday.

The move by the Knesset comes despite calls by the international community including Tel Aviv's staunch ally-~~Washington~~- to Israel to halt its settlement expansion.

Some 125 million dollars (90 million euros) is to be used for various security expenses, with most of the rest allocated to housing construction, the radio said.

The Peace Now anti-settlement watchdog has declared that the settlement spending in the two-year budget could be far higher that by "spreading over several sections of budget."

"The official figures are nothing but the tip of the iceberg and the Israelis will pay not only a political price for the settlements, but also an economic one," the head of the group Yariv Oppenheimer said.

Israel's two-year 159-billion-dollar budget must pass two more readings in the Knesset.

Israel's settlement activities have been described as the main obstacle in the way of the peace process

05:49 AM Jun 24 2009 \| Responder
fabs1 United Kingdom	What is this garbage? Maybe apart of 'what is going on in Palestine' should include Hamas' Iron fist regime in Gaza? The clampdown on opposition in the West Bank by Fatah forced? Widespread corruption of officials? The regular hate propaganda on PA Television? Instead we get more self-victimization of the poor poor Palestinians.

05:49 AM Jun 24 2009 | Responder

fabs1

United Kingdom

What is this garbage?

Maybe apart of 'what is going on in Palestine' should include Hamas' Iron fist regime in Gaza?

The clampdown on opposition in the West Bank by Fatah forced?

Widespread corruption of officials?

The regular hate propaganda on PA Television?

Instead we get more self-victimization of the poor poor Palestinians.

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